After holding a small-scale meal-packing event in the spring, Student Government is looking to up the stakes at next month’s Pack-A-Thon, when students will pack meals for people who are hungry in developing countries like Haiti, Jamaica and Sri Lanka.
A new Colgate-Palmolive plant will bring 300 jobs, four motorists have been killed by crashes with deer this year, and a Batesburg-Leesville town councilman goes to jail after not paying child support.
The Indian Cultural Exchange, a multicultural student organization, hosted a colorful and lively Garba dancing event Monday to celebrate the Hindu festival Navaratri.
More than 55 years ago, Mary Beth Tinker had no idea what would happen when she put on a black armband and wore it to school in protest of the Vietnam War.
One in eight women will battle breast cancer in their lifetimes.
A record number of parents and relatives converged on Columbia this weekend for USC’s annual Parents’ Weekend. The more than 10,000 family members attended social events, mingled with university administrators and sat in on classes.
Crime reports from the USC Division of Law Enforcement and Safety for the past week
As a student at USC in the ’70s, Donna Walker was asked by South Carolina College of Pharmacy Dean Julian Fincher to represent the school at a regional conference in Memphis, Tenn. That “small request” kicked off a college career — and a lifetime — of leadership in the pharmacy industry for Walker.
Capitol shooting suspect shot and killed, South Carolina employees furloughed after government shutdown and repeat DUI offender sentenced to 17 years in prison.
Students Helping Honduras was created to raise money to build schools in Honduras for those who do not have them. As part of a national organization, the University of South Carolina chapter was established last spring.
“Talk about that, Freddie,” was all the encouragement Freddie Vanderford needed to begin wailing on his harmonica.
Imagine biking more than 4,000 miles and building houses along the way. USC graduate student Chelsea Ball, 23, didn’t have to imagine it, because she did so this past summer. Ball traveled all the way from Jacksonville, Fla., to Monterey, Calif., to help people who depend on affordable housing.
A high school quarterback is facing drug charges, 11 juveniles pleaded guilty in the beating death of a Columbia man and the city’s next mayor will get a pay raise.
Following two recent appointments, Student Life’s Office of Multicultural Student Affairs (OMSA) is fully staffed after multiple positions went unfilled for months. The positions of director and assistant director of Multicultural Student Affairs were filled last month by Shay Malone and Nakia Strickland, respectively.
Student Government is in the process of assembling the house of delegates following the dismissal of an organizational challenge asking them to do just that. Student Body President Chase Mizzell announced that SG was “in the process of developing” the body.
After the student section emptied early during South Carolina’s game against Vanderbilt, Student Government and the Athletics Department have developed new strategies to keep students in the stands.